Core Values & Outcomes
Curiosity
Inspire curiosity about themselves, others and the world beyond
Communication
Elevate communication from all parts of self, builds resilience too knowing when and how to ask for support
Courage
create access to their most powerful selves. The courage to think and do differently.The courage to explore and embrace themselves fully.
What We Do
Life coaching.
1:1 coaching programmes
and workshops.
We recognise the importance of a whole-school, community-based approach and so also offer training workshops to all staff as well as Executive Coaching to your Senior Leadership Teams.
Through specialist coaching - where we coach on most topics your YP and SLT may bring to the table - we always aim to promote positive mental wellbeing, and create an environment in which they have space to explore challenges and success' they face either in school or at home, as it all impacts how they show up daily.
One to One Coaching for Students
Workshops for Students and Staff
Exec. Coaching for
Senior Leadership Teams
1:1 Coaching for Students
You choose who you'd like us to work with, we have a discovery session with them where they decide if they want to be coached for the term.
We hold weekly sessions of 45 mins, same time same day each week of the term.
You simply need to provide them with a physical space where they can be coached and have the opportunity to talk in confidence with their coach on any topic they choose.
Being able to offer this service remotely via online video coaching meaning you can share the 6 session slots (per day) with other schools in your network, be that your academy trust or a local cluster.
We provide weekly feedback whilst maintaining confidentiality for the students.
Students
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Seeing thing from anyones perspective
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How to Express Yourself
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Building Confidence
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Overwhelm, managing stress and anxiety around school or homelife
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How to have healthy friendships / relationships
Secondary
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Whats Next for You - live a fulfilling life
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Inner Critics - when to ask for help, be supported
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Who You Are and How You Show Up
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Communicating Emotions
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Managing Overwhelm, Pressure and Anxiety - school or home-life
All workshops can have added staff training to continue work in school.
Primary
Workshops
Coaching Workshops for either a variety of targeted individuals or whole class groups. Through these carefully designed workshops we promote positive mental wellbeing and choice.
We offer the opportunity to expand their own talking tree, discover their passions, purpose and gain confidence. We equip YP and Staff with the tools needed to build resilience and support each other.
These can be bespoke depending on your needs.
Staff
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Creative collaboration
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Mental wellbeing - inner critic, active listening
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Importance of Personal Development - resources free or paid.
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Team Communication - transparency, opinion
All Staff
SLT
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Managing Change
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Coaching Skills to Support your Staff
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Leadership - tapping into your team, use your resources, embrace individuality, harness their experience. Not using this comes from a place of fear
SLT 'Exec.' Coaching
Whether you've inherited your SLT or hand-selected them, being pro-active about developing their leadership skills is often overlooked due to the limited time and resources within education.
Individual coaching sessions allow your team to identify and focus on their unique 'growing-edge'. Whether that's to gain confidence in leadership and people management, increase self-awareness, manage their mental wellbeing, unleash their personal power, improve their communication style or strengthen their ability to thrive through the pressure associated with making up part of a successful Senior Leadership Team.
Overall you can expect to witness your team greatly improve their performance both individually and together through a shared growth-mindset, with the ability to effectively and creatively manage change at pace.
We work with your team to harness their strengths for a far-reaching and positive impact.
What Our Partners Say
Some of the Nationalities we've Worked with So Far
For Those of You Who Want To Read More...
We Raise Aspirations Through 'Life' Coaching
Through specialist 'Co-Active' life coaching we create a space for self-discovery, invite curiosity and challenge individual beliefs. All in a bid for those that we work with to live their lives consciously and out of choice, not habit or conditioning. We're passionate about creating a world in which together we can hold space for each other's differences, listen and learn with curiosity, navigate courageous conversations and consciously live fulfilling lives.
With extensive classroom experience and working knowledge of whole school issues in mainstream education in the UK and in private schools internationally we, The Talking Tree are conscious of supporting the whole school community in order to improve pupil outcomes both emotionally and academically to enable an ambitious and well-supported future.
As Accredited and Certified coaches, individually we work in multiple arenas including private practice and the corporate world where we design and lead on leadership and empowerment programmes as well as coaching independent global leaders too.
Young People and their experiences are at the centre of everything we do, we empower them to direct their own coaching in order for it to serve them rather than been another activity where they feel pressure to have it be 'successful'. They set those measures within sessions through self-assessment at the beginning and end of their programme as to track their own transformational process/progress - as they are their only measure.
Based on experience we trust that this will also give you the outcomes you desire from investing in them as they transform and choose to show-up differently because they choose to, not because it's yet another thing they've been told to do.
Coaching creates space for and explores choice through deep and inspiring conversation which shifts perspective and in turn raises aspirations. Equipped with tools that will support their development and wellbeing throughout life we're confident all YP we work with will leave a session or workshop with tools they're ready to use in real life.
The Talking Tree is committed to being an open, transparent and inclusive organisation, we are flexible to the needs of your YP and are always open to collaboration and input from our partners.
YP Benefits
They are the whole focus
Improve confidence / resilience
Opportunity to discuss any aspect of life
Listened to without judgement or repercussions
Reduce feelings of anxiety and negative thoughts
Learn to process / express emotion constructively
Empowered to make choices in line with a future they choose
Self-Awareness and acceptance, Self-love
Accept and embrace change
Let go of perfectionism
Clarity on their future
School Benefits
Increased Attendance
Improved Behaviour Choices
Raised Aspirations
Transformed Mindsets
Improved Engagement
Increased Attainment
Pupil Retention
Mental Wellbeing Support
Bespoke Packages
If growth looks a little different in your school please get in touch to start the conversation about how we can collaborate to fulfil your needs. We're all about listening to our community in order to grow together whilst embracing each individual's needs.
What is Coaching?
Coaching creates space to talk, but most importantly to be truly heard, something we believe is incredibly important for Young people. It presents the opportunity to explore who we are as individuals, what we value, where we can grow and what and who we aspire to be, uncovering lessons and ultimately encouraging the action that will empower us to get there.
The Talking Tree works with the Co-Active Coaching Model. This is a very forward focussed model, with emphasis on choice, being present and having the courage to achieve our goals. We work to identify the boundaries of our comfort zone so that that we can step into our growth zone. From here we can create our own lives, shaking off the weight of external pressures to find our own path, with strong roots to balance us and no limitation of where we can grow.
Co-Active® Coaching is an experience of personal and professional development unlike other kinds of coaching. Based on the Co-Active Model, it begins by holding the coachee as naturally creative, resourceful and whole, and completely capable of finding their own answers to whatever challenges they face. The job of a Co-Active® Coach is to ask powerful questions, listen and empower to elicit the skills and creativity a coachee already possesses, rather than instruct or advise.
Have a better idea of it now but would benefit from listening to a coaching session? Listen here.
Skip to 19:25 to listen to a one-off coaching session with a 13 year old who's first experience it is of being coached and having virtually met the coach.
Coaching has a profound and lasting impact